I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions… entertainment… cares and anxieties… and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

My drive is other people’s success.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.